Emotional intelligence

Most organisations would agree that they need people who can learn and adapt quickly, who can solve problems without being told to and who can come up with creative ideas without waiting for others to do it for them. People with a positive, responsible approach.

Businesses also need a return on the time and money they invest in training their people - but are frequently disappointed by the results.

So, what is missing? The Talent Foundation believes that today's training strategies - while relatively sophisticated - have a critical blind spot - that is, the learner's motivation to learn. And without appropriate 'readiness' to learn, training investments are destined to fail.

The Talent Foundation engaged several organisations and individuals to help research the issue of motivation to learn. We looked at several factors that affect motivation and found amazing results in the area of emotional intelligence (EI).

In essence, those individuals who have well developed EI were significantly more proactive towards learning and had higher 'readiness' towards adaptation than those from a control group.

This leaves organisations with two options:

1. Recruit only people with higher levels of EI
2. Develop the workforce you already have.

Can people be trained in emotional intelligence, fast? What difference will it make?

Key Benefits

Our research shows that workers trained in emotional intelligence techniques have significant advantages in:

• "Can do" attitude--confidence in the contribution they can make at work, attitude towards finding opportunities to use their skills at work
• Willingness to learn--positive attitude towards learning
• Confidence on what and how to learn
• Win-win attitude regarding training provided by employers

Our research compared 200 people who attended one of two 3½ day EI-type courses, with 100 people from a demographically-similar control group who did not. The results are astonishing.

Click here to view the Executive Summary of our report